Upper Palatinate Folklore Museum
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The Upper Palatinate Folklore Museum is located in the city of Burglengenfeld .
history
The museum is housed in the listed former nursing home, the so-called "Great Chancellery" of Burglengenfeld Castle. The building is a four-storey hipped roof construction from the mid-16th century. This is followed by two outbuildings, the one to the southeast is a three-storey plastered gable roof building , the southern one is a two-storey plastered hipped roof building. A staircase extension with a pent roof leads to a vestibule. The ensemble also includes an octagonal and plastered pavilion; This tent roof structure has a medieval tower substructure, but was rebuilt in the 19th century.
The nursing home was expanded into a representative administrative building from the mid-1530s under the Count Palatine and Duke Philipp von Pfalz-Neuburg . At times the Count Palatine himself held court here; The district judge of the so-called "mighty district court on the Nordgau", known since 1472, met here every week. The transverse building of the “Big Chancellery” is still called “Philippstrakt” today, it was used as a registry for the district administration until the 1980s (today wing for special exhibitions). Typical architectural features of the 16th century can be found in this wing, but these are probably not due to the financially depressed Philip (e.g. profiled stone door frames, a round-arched door leaf with three-dimensional flowers, doves in relief and angel heads).
Museum concept
The museum has been public since 1987 and is sponsored by the city of Burglengenfeld. It is directed by the folklorist Margit Berwing-Wittl and supported by a "Friends of the Upper Palatinate Folklore Museum".
Folk culture and the way of life of the Upper Palatinate population from the 18th to the 20th century are presented in 36 sections. There are also prehistoric exhibits from the region. On the ground floor, the city and regional history, centered around the topic of “rural work and economy”, is presented. In addition to local residential ensembles, the first floor shows the working methods and products of local handicrafts. A special exhibition wing is dedicated to the working and industrial culture. On the upper floor, popular piety, costume, folk music and customs are presented in the course of the year and life.
Through special exhibitions (e.g. "Made in the Upper Palatinate - porcelain, earthenware and enamel", "The view of the traditional costume - clothing as a symbol"), lectures ("A year without summer - the hunger year 1816 in the Upper Palatinate") and Current events (annual “museum rally” for children and young people, “Martini market”, “pottery like Asterix and Obelix - Celtic vessels”) are linked to living traditions. The educational concept of the museum includes changing city tours (“With the Kasperl through Burglengenfeld”, “Cemetery tour”, “500 years of purity law”, “Judiciary in the old days”). Regionally based artists (e.g. Hans Maierhofer , Paul Schinner , Ludwig Bäuml ) are also presented in regular art exhibitions .
literature
- Margit Berwing-Wittl: The sad prince. Philip's footsteps in Burglengenfeld. In: Tobias Appl, Margit Berwing-Wittl, Bernhard Lübbers (eds.): Philipp der Streitbare. A prince of the early modern age. (Pp. 210–245) Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7917-1862-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Margit Berwing-Wittl, 2003, p. 221 f.
- ↑ Festive Martinimarkt in the Folklore Museum Burglengenfeld, 2016 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Martini Market in the Folklore Museum Burglengenfeld, Lokalnet.de from November 6, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 33 " N , 12 ° 2 ′ 27.2" E